All 3 Uses of
tether
in
War and Peace
- They rode through the village of Rykonty, past tethered French hussar horses, past sentinels and men who saluted their colonel and stared with curiosity at a Russian uniform, and came out at the other end of the village.†
Chpt 9 *
- Near the watchman's hut the black shapes of the Cossacks' shanties and of horses tethered together could be seen.†
Chpt 14
- Petya ought to have known that he was in a forest with Denisov's guerrilla band, less than a mile from the road, sitting on a wagon captured from the French beside which horses were tethered, that under it Likhachev was sitting sharpening a saber for him, that the big dark blotch to the right was the watchman's hut, and the red blotch below to the left was the dying embers of a campfire, that the man who had come for the cup was an hussar who wanted a drink; but he neither knew nor…†
Chpt 14
Definition:
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(tether) to tie so as to limit the boundaries of movement; or the rope or other material used to do the tying